Not Long for Nashville

I'd like to try to preserve the memory of Nashville's doomed buildings before they're wiped away by creative destruction and Google Streetview updates. Probably West-side centric but I'd love tips about structures slated for destruction all over town.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

This building was an old Beaman Automotive dealership. I got my car fixed here once! Also, turns out it's in the City of Berry Hill, so there's that. It's on the lot fronting Franklin between Melpark Dr. and Bradford Ave.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I mentioned the Note16 development yesterday but had totally forgotten that there was an existing structure on the property before construction started. Luckily it's still available on Google Street View (though you can't get a great look at it through the trees):

A pretty ugly 2-story brick structure. In the past this building was something called the "International English Institute" as well as the "Council on Community Service". Which are both pretty vague. I'm not sure when the building was built, probably late 60s or early 70s.

This one is a big deal, locally. The building at the corner of 21st Ave. S. and Acklen in Hillsboro Village has been demolished and will be replaced (by local juggernaut Hill Realty) with a larger mixed residential / retail building. It will apparently have 47 apartments, which was scaled down from the original plans because of the area's zoning overlay, which limits height.

The old building was a single-story strip that housed the Zeitgeist Gallery, Posh Boutique, Cotton Music, Retropolitan, Peabody Shoe Repair, and a cosmetics shop. I think it also included the All Fired Up pottery studio in the rear.

I'm not entirely sure about the address on this one because the parcel has changed but I think it was originally 1724 14th Ave. S. Now it is 1300-1308 Wedgewood Ave. as the "Belmont Close Townhomes", a 5 unit project that was completed in spring 2013.

This house was on sale for a little bit last year and appeared
to be in pretty bad shape. I walked past it recently and saw that it
had been knocked down and a large infill was under construction. The
property assessor website says the original house was built in 1930 and
sold in May, 2013 for $170,000.

1303 Villa Pl. was an ugly brown duplex on the corner of Villa Place and Horton, in Edgehill. Built around 1983 according to the property assessor, it was purchased by Stonehenge Village, LLC in 2012 (or maybe earlier? they were certainly using it earlier) and used as the construction office for the adjacent Note16 apartment building. It was demoed in mid-July, 2013 and is currently a vacant lot, surely pending sale to a developer who will drop in a $500k infill.Street View link